Dictionary: Rest
Synonyms: relax, take a rest, ease up/off, let up, slow down, pause, have/take a break, unbend, repose, laze, idle, loaf, do nothing, take time off, slack off, unwind, recharge one's batteries, be at leisure, take it easy, sit back, sit down, stand down, lounge, luxuriate, loll, slump, flop, put one's feet up, lie down, go to bed, have/take a nap, nap, catnap, doze, have/take a siesta, drowse, sleep, lie, be laid, recline, be, be placed, be positioned, support, prop (up), steady, balance, lean, lay, set, sit, stand, position, place, put, be based on, be grounded in, be founded on, depend on, be dependent on, rely on, hinge on, turn on, hang on, pivot on, be contingent on, revolve around, centre on, relaxation, leisure, ease, inactivity, respite, time off, time out, breathing space, break, interval, interlude, intermission, base, holder, stay, prop, brace, rack, hook, frame, shelf, bracket, trestle, tripod, plinth, pedestal, foundation, bed, foot, substructure, a standstill, a halt, a stop, remainder, residue, remaining part/number/quantity, part/number/quantity (that is) left over, others, those left, remains, remnant, remnants, rump, surplus, difference, extra, excess, superfluity, overflow, overspill, additional people/material/things, extra people/material/things, remain, continue to be, keep, persist in being, carry on being, go on being
Antonyms: work, motion, movement, struggle, rage, go mad, have a fit, see red, hit the roof, toil, be active, labor, effort, agony, activity, do, blow one's stack, blow a gasket, do one's nut, go ape, go wild, lose it, drive, action, move
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Curtis Lewis
... of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Washington family's day was dictated by the ritual crowing of the rooster. Now Booker T. Washington's family knew the true meaning of freedom. Young Booker T. discovered that the first day he didn't have to get out of bed was the first day he really desired to get up and start living for his own reasons. He realized a purpose for living and a passionate call to serve others. The book of Deuteronomy recognizes that the people of God will be faced with crowing roosters ...
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Richard Gribble
... about his car problem. Quickly the rugged "biker" siphoned some gas from another vehicle, gave David directions, and sent him on his way. When he arrived home, his wife, who was obviously concerned about her husband's late return, told him that he needed to get to bed and rest, but he responded, "I need to rewrite my sermon." The next day David did not talk about New Being or estrangement from authentic selfhood; he simply told the story of how God raised Jesus from the dead and in the process gave him and ...
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Richard Gribble
... evening?" The answer is a human being. In the early days of our life we crawl and, thus, use four "legs" to get around. We are totally dependent upon others for everything at this stage in our life. We are willing to be fed, changed, carried, put to bed. Our independence is minimal. In the great afternoon or middle of life, we walk upright on two feet. Gradually as we mature we become more and more independent and, thus, less and less dependent on others. There is no need to be a team player at this stage ...
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King Duncan
... . Baseball is destroying me. I can’t even get away from it in my sleep. As soon as I close my eyes, I’m out there chasing a fly ball or running around the bases. When I wake up, I’m more tired than I was when I went to bed. What am I going to do? The psychiatrist sat back and folded her hands. “First of all,” she said, “you have to make a conscious effort not to dream about baseball. For example, when you close your eyes, try to imagine that you’re at a party at which someone ...
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King Duncan
... moves slowly when you are hurting. You can see this in the life of the church. When the church has been persecuted, when times have been hard, the cry has gone up with fervor, Maranatha! “Come quickly Lord.” Anyone who has ever lain in a hospital bed for a long time, in pain, with little hope in sight understands. “Come quickly Lord.” But God’s timing is not our timing. Faith is the belief that God will come, even when the clock is ticking very slowly. Unless you are going through a particularly ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... almost impossible to breathe. Our letter exchange has been a great source of joy and strength for me -- And I'll miss that. But I'll carry with me forever thee memory of our last three hours together. December to London, Plane to Aberdeen. He couldn't get out of bed so we spent our 3 hours in his upstairs bedroom. When it came time to go, I read Romans 8 -- "Nothing can separate us from the love of God..." then we prayed. I hugged him -- "I'll see you John." He lifted his hand...and it was shaking...held it ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... Atlanta and would drive to visit Birmingham, where she would probably see her father alive for the last time, because just before she had taken off from Tampa, she had received a telephone call from her family telling her that her father was on his death bed. No wonder she was not interested in the sunset. I shared my love and concern - God’s love and concern and another divine transaction took place, like that one that had taken place on the park bench at Ocean Grove. Because I exercised my priesthood. I ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... predicament of the modern Christian is precisely at that point, the limitless power of God to live vital and vibrant lives is available to us and we’re not even aware of it. Did you hear the story of that little three-year girl who fell out of bed about 3:00 in the morning. Hear cries awakened her father in the next room. The father went quickly gathered the little girl up in his arms and attempted to kiss away the tears. Finally he said to her, “honey what happened.” Through stuffy tones as the tears ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... you remember Psalms 139. It’s that marvelous affirmation of the presence of God in life and death, in life beyond death. You remember. “Whither shall I go from thy spirit or whither shall I flee from that presence. If send into heaven thou art there, if I make my bed in hell, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there thy hand shall lead me and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say let only darkness cover me and the light about me be ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... said, “Listen nigger, we’ve taken all we want from you. Before next week you’ll be sorry you ever came to Montgomery.” His caller hung up, but King couldn’t sleep. Fear gripped him in its steel vice, and this was his testimony. He said, “I got out of bed and walked the floor. Finally, I went into the kitchen and heated a pot of coffee. I was ready to give up. With my cup of coffee setting untouched before me, I tried to think of a way I might move out of the picture without appearing to be a ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... am I that I should be so blessed? Now I’m not altogether naïve, and I know that we go through some days when everything seems a curse rather than a blessing. Days when we feel that we would have been better off not to get out of bed. Now that fact makes thanksgiving even more important. If we’re earnest in our praying, we will not be daunted by those dreadful days when everything goes wrong. For we will have cultivated our perception to see clearly and from a longer view rather than the perspective of ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... the day of Christ. Now there are two snares into which we Christians tend to fall – the first is the snare of thinking that being justified by God is all that we need. Have I told you the story of that little 3-year old girl who fell out of bed about 3:00 in the morning? Her cries awakened her mother in the next room and the mother ran hurriedly to the room, gathered the little child up in her arms and attempted to kiss away the tears. Finally she said to the little girl, honey, what happened? Through ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... . It may occur when we’re terminated by a long-time employer without explanation. Or when an illness confines us and there is no respite from pain. Or when illness strikes a child and we’re helpless and can do nothing but sit by the side of that bed and hold the child’s hand, as that child hovers between life and death. It may come with advancing age, when we’re forced to pull roots of a lifetime and leave our home and accept the limitations of decreasing vitality. We may head for Emmaus when our ...
1564. Remember Your Baptism
Romans 6:1-14, Colossians 2:6-23
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Maxie Dunnam
... had a wonderful time. They ate ice cream and cake, they had a procession up to the top of the block and back again, and then when it was all over, everyone knew it had been a royal, wonderful day. That evening as Clayton’s mom tucked him into bed, she asked him what he wished for when he blew the candles out on the birthday cake. I wished, he said, that everyone, everyone in the whole wide world could be a king and a queen. Not just on my birthday, but everyday. My friend Willimon closed this story ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... almost impossible to breathe. Our letter exchange has been a great source of joy and strength for me -- And I'll miss that. But I'll carry with me forever thee memory of our last three hours together. December to London, Plane to Aberdeen. He couldn't get out of bed so we spent our 3 hours in his upstairs bedroom. When it came time to go, I read Romans 8 -- "Nothing can separate us from the love of God..." then we prayed. I hugged him -- "I'll see you John." He lifted his hand...and it was shaking...held it ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... sides. We speak the same prayers,our words going up to the same quiet air;petitioning the same quiet God,from different sides. You dream dreams that come to pass as I dream nightmares I pray will not. And we sleep the same sleep,in different beds,on different sides. (Communicator's Commentary on Colossians, p.343-344.) Do you get that -- the difference between being inside those bars and free? "You dream dreams that come to pass as I dream nightmares I pray will not." Yet, all of us need freedom no ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... money? How many times do you pay off a drug dealer who is threatening to break somebody's leg for a couple of hundred dollars? How many counselors do you see? How many attorneys do you hire? How many times do you leave the door unlocked upon going to bed for the night just in case? How many times do you cook oatmeal to nurse how many hangovers?" (Ritter, Ibid.) The story is as new as it is old. Prodigals do return -- but they leave again -- and they return - and they leave, and they return. "How many times ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... and there is none else. I formed the light, and create darkness." Isaiah knew because he believed the creation story that all the universe belongs to God no aspect of human experience is without God's presence. The psalmist knew it too, so he could sing "If I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art there...If I say, surely the darkness shall come over me; even the night shall be light about me...the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee." (Psalm 139: 8, 11-12) And it was good and it was very good. Not ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... little song I wrote You might want to sing it note for note. Don't worry -- Be Happy.Every night we have some trouble, When you worry you make it double. Don't worry -- Be Happy. Ain't got no place to lay your head, Somebody came and took your bed. Don't worry, Be Happy.The Landlord says "Your rent is late." He may have to litigate.Don't worry -- Be Happy!Look at me. I'm Happy! At first, it seems superficial, but when you think of it for awhile, it isn't superficial. Isn't this what Jesus ...
1570. A Fragrant Offering
Ephesians 4:17--5:21
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch. He was talking about an experience he had had visiting a cherished friend who was seriously ill. Let me read you a portion of that column -- the way he closed it. "When Frank Segner pushed himself into an upright position in the hospital bed, the heart monitor's cursive line disintegrated into an erratic scribble. His wife, Mary, returned to the room and drew a chair to his bedside. I'm thirsty, Frank said. Mary lifted the straw to his lips as he pulled the oxygen mask aside. The ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... on a poster to hang in an airport. A Praying, Celebrating, Caring Place and People. Come to think of it, maybe we don't need a poster in the airport or anyplace else. You be the poster, and I'll be the poster. A small boy, after being tucked into bed for the night, cried out. "Mommy, I'm afraid to be alone in the dark. I want somebody to stay with me." His mother responded, "Don't be afraid. God is with you." The little boy then said sadly, "I want somebody with skin on his face." Jesus was God ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... put love in there too. And it is for you." Paul was crushed. He hugged his little girl and begged her to forgive him. Then he fell to his knees and pleaded for God to cleanse him of his terrible temper. (From then on) he kept the box by his bed... When he was hurt or discouraged he would reach in and pull out an imaginary kiss, place it on his cheek, and say, "Thank you, Lord." (From Love Must Be Tough" , James Dobdon, p. 151). When Mike shared that story, he did something I want to do as a reminder ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... all in the room with David, Marguerite, his precious wife -- one of God's great women -- his two sons, David and Floyd -- both United Methodist ministers, and Jerry and me. It just seemed right that we worship together. And we did. Some of us were seated on his bed, holding his hands; others were standing close around.We prayed and we sang hymns -- boy, did we sing. And I read the passage from I Thessalonians, Chapter 4. Let me read a portion of that for you -- verses 13 - 18: "But we do not want you to be ...
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Maxie Dunnam
Somewhere along the way I saw a cartoon which showed a man kneeling beside his bed saying his prayers. "God," he says, "is there any way you can help me and make it look like I did it myself?" We chuckle at that. Maybe the reason we don't laugh out loud is that it strikes close home. We are always playing tug of war with ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don't Worry Be Happy. In Every life we have some trouble,When you worry you make it double.Don't worry Be Happy. Ain't got no place to lay your head,Somebody came and took your bed. Don't worry Be Happy The landlord says "Your rent is late,”He may have to litigate. Don't worry Be Happy! Ain't got no cash, Ain't got no style, Ain't got no girl to make you smile. Don't worry Be Happy Cause when you worry ...
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